Bug#665795: texlive-base upgrade leaves empty directories behind
clone 665795 -1
reassign -1 dpkg
retitle -1 dpkg-maintscript-helper does not remove empty directories
thanks
On Mo, 26 Mär 2012, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> During the upgrade from 2009-15, dpkg is complaining about:
>
> Dépaquetage de la mise à jour de texlive-base ...
> Remplacement de fichiers dans l'ancien paquet tex-common ...
> dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/metafont/misc » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
> dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/metafont » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
> dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/texdoc » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
>
> After all the packages have been confiured /etc/texmf/metafont and
> /etc/texmf/texdoc are empty and not owned by any packages.
I see, that is true, and there are more directories like that.
It comes from the fact that I assumed that using dpkg-maintscript-helper
will remove empty directories, too, which it doesn't.
I am cloning this bug and reassiǵn to dpkg so that this might get
implemented.
dpkg maintainers: After removing a conffile it might be useful to add
rmdir --ignore-if-empty $(basename $file)
or whatever you are using.
For the TeX Live packages, this is a problem now, because I really
don't know how to autogenreate it. I will look into it.
Best wishes
Norbert
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